Category Archives: defamation

online defamation

April 21, 2006 – 10:52 pm

A German court has offered the weirdly cretinous opinion that if one cannot moderate one’s chatroom forums then the only sensible option is to shut them down or, somehow (not yet technically reasonably possible), to reduce the flow of web traffic so that one can cope.

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more defamation

March 22, 2006 – 11:38 pm

Via b2fxxx (again, rapidly approaching IPKAT for contemporaneous reporting).
Following closely in the wake of Bunt v Tilley comes yet another online defamation case: Smith v Williams in which a right wing loony (UK Independence Party - natch) wins against a left wing loony.

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ISPs as mere conduits & loony litigants in person

March 21, 2006 – 10:48 pm

Information overlord and b2fxxx both comment on the recent case of Bunt v Tilley & Others. An interesting Internet defamation case that illustrated a useful distinction from the case of Godfrey v Demon. In summary what happened was that, allegedly, several individuals made defamatory remarks about Bunt’s business. These remarks were published on forums that […]

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